The Influence of Cognitive Biases on Architectural Technical Debt
Cognitive biases exert a significant influence on human thinking and decision-making. In order to identify how they influence the occurrence of architectural technical debt, a series of semi-structured interviews with software architects was performed. The results show which classes of architectural...
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| Format | Journal Article |
| Language | English |
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25.09.2023
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| Summary: | Cognitive biases exert a significant influence on human thinking and
decision-making. In order to identify how they influence the occurrence of
architectural technical debt, a series of semi-structured interviews with
software architects was performed. The results show which classes of
architectural technical debt originate from cognitive biases, and reveal the
antecedents of technical debt items (classes) through biases. This way, we
analysed how and when cognitive biases lead to the creation of technical debt.
We also identified a set of debiasing techniques that can be used in order to
prevent the negative influence of cognitive biases. The observations of the
role of organisational culture in the avoidance of inadvertent technical debt
throw a new light on that issue. |
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| DOI: | 10.48550/arxiv.2309.14175 |